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Thursday, April 08, 2010

Grandpa Alert! Creation post delayed

ARTIST SKETCH ABOVE of the two suspected grandsons, ten and eight years old, at large in the area. If you think you see one of these boys, you live closer to me than you thought!

The expected next post is delayed due to the visit of grandsons, which will take me away from any blogging for a day or two. So I am just quickly posting a list from a friend of mine. You will see the tactics of some of the commenters in the list. This list is on ways the enemy tries to make pastors and other church leaders go off-course. Gee, I am delaying and that is last on the list. But actually I am prioritizing and putting my two cool grandsons over sitting around composing a long blog post. Family before blogging!

TEN TOP WAYS THE ENEMY TAKES YOU OFF-COURSE

DECEPTION 1. Making things appear other than what they are2. This was the primary approach in the GardenDIVERSION 1. Throwing off into side issues2. Such things as politics, KJV or even good for better, better for best (Satan will not always come with bad things in temptation- sometimes they are good))DISTRACTION 1. Getting our attention off what it should be on2. Can use troubles, anxiety, fear, possessions, egoDISTORTION 1. Getting things out of proportion2. Making mountains out of molehills, and molehills out of mountains.DEVALUATION1. Making important things seem unimportant2. Especially does this in the area of sin - makes us make all kinds of rationalizationsDISCOURAGEMENT1. Concentration on negative factors (why it can’t happen or be done)2. Discouraged people can’t be blessed because they are not living where God blessesDEPRESSION 1. General sense of being down or less than best2. A more developed sense of discouragement - when discouragement becomes chronicDESPAIR 1. The final result of discouragement/depression, when one gives up hope2. The final “what’s the use” attitudeDIVISION1. Driving of wedges between people who ought to be united2. Does this in families and churches in particularDELAY 1. Postponement of what should be done2. Especially with the unsaved, but this affects the saved also

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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.Francis Maitland Balfour